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CVE-2022-50369

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/vkms: Fix null-ptr-deref in vkms_release()

A null-ptr-deref is triggered when it tries to destroy the workqueue in
vkms->output.composer_workq in vkms_release().

 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000118-0x000000000000011f]
 CPU: 5 PID: 17193 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.0.0-11331-gd465bff130bf #24
 RIP: 0010:destroy_workqueue+0x2f/0x710
 ...
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? vkms_config_debugfs_init+0x50/0x50 [vkms]
  __devm_drm_dev_alloc+0x15a/0x1c0 [drm]
  vkms_init+0x245/0x1000 [vkms]
  do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4f0
  do_init_module+0x1a4/0x680
  load_module+0x6249/0x7110
  __do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200
  do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

The reason is that an OOM happened which triggers the destroy of the
workqueue, however, the workqueue is alloced in the later process,
thus a null-ptr-deref happened. A simple call graph is shown as below:

 vkms_init()
  vkms_create()
    devm_drm_dev_alloc()
      __devm_drm_dev_alloc()
        devm_drm_dev_init()
          devm_add_action_or_reset()
            devm_add_action() # an error happened
            devm_drm_dev_init_release()
              drm_dev_put()
                kref_put()
                  drm_dev_release()
                    vkms_release()
                      destroy_workqueue() # null-ptr-deref happened
    vkms_modeset_init()
      vkms_output_init()
        vkms_crtc_init() # where the workqueue get allocated

Fix this by checking if composer_workq is NULL before passing it to
the destroy_workqueue() in vkms_release().

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VendorLinux
Product Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version < 0b8f390e2251191f1b179cc87f65d54c96565f0d
Version 6c234fe37c57627a5baf96f552afa1fae2b67d4d
Status affected
Version < 1f9836f95271e7acf016667eee0aeae3386f9645
Version 6c234fe37c57627a5baf96f552afa1fae2b67d4d
Status affected
Version < 596f1ba3987e601e31a5abf1f75ce1d2635aceac
Version 6c234fe37c57627a5baf96f552afa1fae2b67d4d
Status affected
Version < 57031c474c3a920ea73afeb5dc352e537f5793ee
Version 6c234fe37c57627a5baf96f552afa1fae2b67d4d
Status affected
Version < 2fe2a8f40c21161ffe7653cc234e7934db5b7cc5
Version 6c234fe37c57627a5baf96f552afa1fae2b67d4d
Status affected
VendorLinux
Product Linux
Default Statusaffected
Version 4.20
Status affected
Version < 4.20
Version 0
Status unaffected
Version <= 5.10.*
Version 5.10.173
Status unaffected
Version <= 5.15.*
Version 5.15.99
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.1.*
Version 6.1.16
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.2.*
Version 6.2.3
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 6.3
Status unaffected
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
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